Ten Things You Shouldn’t Do In An Interview
Anne Richardson from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Careers Service highlights a number of common mistakes that can be made during interviews WITH the job market more competitive than ever it’s important to remember there are some things you should simply not do at an interview:1. Leaving your mobile phone switched on — Can...
Sarah’s Off The Charts
Top class: Over 80 Chartered Institute of Building members and guests celebrated the success of local students at the recent 2013 Annual Lecture and Awards ceremony hosted by CITB-ConstructionSkills NI. Among them was Sarah Marshall, project manager for Amey Ventures Management Services, who completed CIOB training with training provider QTAS and was presented with the...
Reeling In New Talent
Big screen ambition: John Walls from film training company Giga Training, and Sonya Burns, programme manager for Southern Partnership, are looking for young Spielbergs. The Intergenerational Good Relations film project gives participants the chance to train with industry professionals and produce films. Visit www.gigatraining.com.
NIE Wants Graduates
NIE will be recruiting a ‘significant number’ of graduate engineers over the next decade, according to its human resources director. Gordon Parkes was speaking during a visit to NIE’s Campsie training Centre by Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry. The Minister offered his Department’s support for NIE’s Apprentice Graduate Scholarship Programme which will see...
Learn For Future
HEALTH Minister Edwin Poots has outlined how skills learned at college today will help enhance communities in the future. He was taking part in a question-and-answer session with health, social care and childcare students at South Eastern Regional College’s Downpatrick Campus. Early Years student Lindsey Vize said: “He took the time to explain to us...
Town Hosts Careers Fair
LARNE will play host to a major Job & Opportunities Fair later this month. This free event on February 19 has been organised in partnership with the Department for Employment and Learning, Larne Borough Council, LEDCOM and Larne Development Forum, and runs from 2-6pm in Larne Town Hall. The event is open to all who...
Workforce In North West Urged To Improve Skills
THE future economic prosperity of the North West depends on upskilling its workforce, according to a Derry businessman. Gavin Killeen, managing director of Nuprint and chair of the One Plan Skills Directorate and the North West Workforce Development Forum, was speaking during a recent Ministerial visit to the city. In his chairman’s role he is...
Bring On Best Of Boston
THE Ulster Business School is the first of its kind in the UK to join an elite academic global network teaching an internationally renowned economics course. From April 2013, it will deliver the prestigious Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development (MOC) course, developed by Harvard Professor Michael E Porter, a world-leading authority in...
Jobs Boost For Tech Firm After £854K Grant
A LISBURN company is set to create over 60 new quality jobs. Seven Technologies, which operates in the field of specialist Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Internet Protocol (IP) solutions has announced it is creating the high value positions in an expansion supported by Invest NI. Invest NI has offered the company, which...
Working Abroad Expo in Dublin in March
Donegal born Siobhan Deery and her 17 year old daughter Kirstin immigrated to Canada last July having attended the Working Abroad Expo in Dublin in March. Siobhan is a well-qualified and experienced professional with a BA (Hons) in Banking & Finance, MA in Business Studies and a PGCE. Siobhan was interested in...